skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not experiencing any stress due to work. What do you mean? Too much work? You don't like the work environment? Worried about layoffs or AI?

Stress describes how a person reacts to a situation. Stress does not describe a property of a job, a company, a political climate. Some things you can control, some things you can't, you have to adapt and pick your battles. You can choose how you react to other people and the world you live in, but you probably can't change other people or the world. When you come to terms with that, and realize that worrying doesn't accomplish anything, you can perhaps choose to feel less stressed.
Just a quick comment to point out that the formal proof [4] is in fact complete.
If they "fake it" and it tastes better... then why are you going out of your way chasing some marketing term that tastes worse to you?
The joke was

"I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played for SEVEN hours. Great song."
100% Is Not Enough
It's like a painting. Either you like it or not.
What's the granularity of the prediction (I'm not sure if that's the correct word? I'm not a meteorologist)? Region level (100s km)? City level (a few 10s of kms)? Block level (a few kms)?

When you say it's on par with global weather models, how is "weather prediction accuracy" measured?

Cool, none-the-less!
There's so much love for HyperCard. I missed out on this, but it seems like it empowered people to make lots of small useful utilities. It somewhat seems similar in versatility to spreadsheets, but with a different utility.

For the people that were around for this, I'm curious what kind of modern tools captures this feeling for you?

I'm slightly younger, and I feel some nostalgic love for tools like Delphi/VB and Macromedia Flash. Imperfect tools, but they sparked creativity.

Our tools got so much better, but we lost something along the way.
Show HN: I made an app to take the pain out of playing poker in person
Ever felt like you were the designated poker dealer in your friend group? Frustrated with the clunky, old-school home game experience? Well, I did too. Years of playing poker left me wanting more than just shuffling and dealing. That's why two friends and I decided to change the way we play.

We've built an app to streamline your home poker games! Think automated dealing, easy chip management, and features to keep things exciting. We're in beta now, so if you love poker nights, we need your help. Check out the app, give us feedback, and let's change the game together!
And it's a separate clipboard from Ctrl+C/right-click-and-copy. The number of times I miss that on non-Linux...
This doesn't sound right, plenty of printers print as fast as Bambus and faster, yet arcs are not a go-to for them (Voron, RatRig, Annex communities all seem totally indifferent to that feature). The value of arcs is in reducing gcode size and thus allowing weaker processors to handle particularly curve heavy prints. Since other fast printers have until very recently been mainly DIY and Klipper based, they've had more than enough processing power to handle unwelded gcode without special handling for arcs due to typically doing all the processing on an RPi.

If the slicer can't generate arcs, it has to do what the firmware does in the case of arc gcode, that is generate a large number of small moves to represent the arc with sufficient resolution, this doesn't affect jerkiness because as long as the firmware is keeping up in processing the gcode, the steppers move the same as they would with the equivalent arc gcode. The 'pulses' the page mentions would only occur if the processor can't keep up with the movement of the toolhead.
I agree comparisons aren't useful - but consider the fact that Madoff screwed over accredited investors, institutions and generally very rich people. SBF messed with customer deposits of a million retail investors - he was going to be made an example of.
This is of course the correct answer to the question. But additionally, I made the joke because I somewhat Identified with the 'Jack' use case mentioned in one of the pages on the PySpreads site
Not desperate for a business plan and revenue like Docker.
> A professional in any field will ultimately want to customize their tool or make their own tools

I suspect you’re a programmer. This is not the perspective or reality of most professional users. Most professional apps are not, themselves, customizable. Most professional users do not make their own tools, or want to. If you’re a programmer, you’ll understand this, because that’s why you’re employed: they want you to do it.
The AS/400 (aka IBM i) appears to be of a different lineage, derived from the late-70s IBM System/38 minicomputers.

Nevertheless, it sports many IBM-isms in its design, including integrating database functionality directly into the operating system, making database tables and files almost coterminous with record-level file access being the primary mode of access; and the use of block-oriented, rather than character-oriented terminals (the IBM 5250).

Interestingly unique to IBM i among IBM operating systems is the pervasive use of object orientation throughout its system APIs; there are no pointers, everything is an object over which some operations are permitted and others forbidden. While the mainframe series retained darn-near-perfect backwards compatibility through system-level emulation of old architectures on top of new architectures, IBM i's solution to this problem is different: TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface), a kernel-level abstract machine to which all IBM i applications are targeted. No programmer access to the underlying machine code is provided. Rather, the first time the kernel loads a TIMI executable, it AOT-compiles it to whatever the underlying CPU architecture it is. This enables seamless CPU architecture changes with perfect backwards compatibility for application code; this already happened in the 90s as the AS/400 line migrated from a System/38-based architecture to PowerPC.
It may be of interest that the BBC’s style guide stipulates that for acronyms pronounced as a word (e.g., NASA - a bona fide acronym [1]) rather than spelled (e.g., BBC - an initialism, rather than an acronym), it should be printed in title case rather than all-caps.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
>FTX added that a jump in crypto prices since the company failed had not given its finances a major boost. It said almost all of the Bitcoin and other digital currencies believed to have been held by the exchange at the time of its collapse were missing.

>The price of the biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has risen by around 270% since the firm filed for bankruptcy more than a year and a half ago.

the problem with your logic is that it misunderstands what theft is because you are looking nominal value instead of opportunity cost. he took peoples money, he gambled it, and theyre generally going to get back a little more than the nominal value of their claims.
With the orchestra spread out on stage from left to right, and a bi-directional mic overhead with the capsule facing left-right, you get a channel which is largely the difference between what a listener at the same position would be hearing from each ear. Not exactly, but something like that. So not very listenable on its own.

On the same pole facing down at the entire band, you have the omnidirectional mic trying to capture the whole thing as good as possible, suitable for live broadcast from this other channel alone. They didn't have stereo radio yet anyway.

Afterward back in the studio, starting with only the two channels on reel-to-reel tape, the "difference" channel can be phase-inverted to an auxiliary tape, then you have three channels suitable for mixing.

And with analog techniques like this they can be mixed "down" to 5.1 surround sound.

From a single mic stand and only two live signals.
Quantum computers are generally more powerful in the sense that they can solve a larger set of problems in polynomial time.

i.e. BPP is contained in BQP but the converse is thought to be false.
I've been hooked on poker since 2007. I've dabbled with online games, played semi-professionally for a couple of years, and even upped the stakes considerably for a while. But there was one thing that consistently killed my enthusiasm: home poker games.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good poker night with friends. The problem was, I always ended up 'working' more than playing. With my experience, I'd be the default dealer, sorting out chips, explaining rules... it got to be more of a chore than a good time.

That's why we built Smart Dealer Poker – to take the pain out of playing poker in person with friends. It handles the dealing, the chips... all the fiddly bits that get in the way of fun.
https://archive.ph/trvwb
That UI is slick. An IMDB clone makes sense since IMDB is centralized and scoped basically to mainstream and indie movies and TV for the most part.

Gentle but very much wanted requests: can it get User Accounts, User Reviews and Movie Lists? IMO, these are some of the greatest features of IMDB and would be some primary use cases for an IMDB clone.

I could imagine people wanting to self-host IMDB type websites, to curate collections of indie videos (be they on YouTube or PeerTube or Odysee or Rumble of ServiceFlavorOfTheMonth or CustomPlatform).

The video format is here to stay, but fragmented/decentralized hosting makes discovery inefficient.

A stable, secure, slick and easy to install, open-source IMDB clone (with basic admin features like control over account creation) where people can share metadata about the wide world of video (perhaps limited to niches of interest to the instance) seems aligned with why one might want to have a clone of IMDB.

I'll leave forums out of the requests list. IMDB forums were great, but I guess IMDB forums moved to MovieChat.org. I don't think the IMDB clone needs a forum. Any old school style forum can supplement an IMDB clone; no need to reinvent the wheel.

But we need a "good enough" IMDB clone. Way to go. Thanks for this!
Mitxela's Monopoly
From the HN FAQ:
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

> [...]

> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.
There is no requirement for passive ventilation.

My friend owns a condo in Vancouver. No windows open.

Also Seattle: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/s2s7bx/cant_open_a...

Also https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/omdxmp/downtown_unit...
> if they manage to carry this momentum over a generational transition

That’s been one of Nintendo’s biggest struggles, at least with their home consoles.
This looks rad. An amazing engineering effort for such a niche problem. As a Linux user who writes code, I'm excited, but I can't help wondering: what is the business model of Zed Industries?
It's like a designer with no portfolio. A lot of them do exist actually, not saying they don't, but I would never hire one.
That’s an interesting use case, we thought of a composition of expert router with specialized models like code-generation models to handle coding tasks. Currently we encourage Users to experiment with their own data, and we're happy to help. If you're interested in applying this to smaller LLMs and specialized adapters, let's connect!
Ask HN: How quickly you sold your project and how it was?
I would like to hear real stories about how quickly you managed to sell your product after launch, how much it brought in at that moment, and what you did to sell it.

Recommendations, lessons, thoughts.
That may well be true, but "VC partner" is an even more extreme example of a bullshit job that entails no real work. Classic projecting.
I heard microsoft made an attempt
Does it still work great?
Apple destroys musical instruments and cameras in controversial iPad M4 ad
Builders rely heavily on financing, so high interest rates hurts the supply side too.
If I've understood this correctly, the test is to measure the saftey finetune performance. These commercial models have been finetuned so that they are "safe", and safe models should not blindly quote what they are told.

Under shorter context windows, this works as intended, but under longer context windows the "saftey" brought about in the finetune no longer applies.
Given it won’t be the world’s biggest market in the next year or two, I think the rumors of the US semiconductor’s demise are likely grossly exaggerated.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-update-2022
https://archive.is/jIPLv
SuperCard still exists! https://supercard.us/

That said, it's stuck in 32-bits-land, so it must be in significant decline.
With Lit it's easy:

https://lit.dev/docs/components/styles/#inheriting-styles-fr...

https://lit.dev/docs/components/styles/#sharing-styles

Already quite some time ago I made a little library which makes this easy:

https://github.com/gitaarik/lit-style
My understanding is that FTX's customers that lost their balances are being given priority in the bankrupcy over investors (of course) and other creditors. So really all this means is that the money that was lost/stolen less than or equal to that put in by investors and other lower priority creditors. Not that no money was lost/stolen.
Perhaps in the narrow technical meaning. But how you present it has great PR value.

I'd like to announce that I'm now investigating @runarberg for <despicable crime>.
with a really unintuitive and inefficient interface.

also they're ruining the experience with attempts to monetize constantly in your face
Nuvia/Qualcomm Elite X aspires to beat M3 and launches in 2 weeks.

Now Apple can keep their crown with this early M4 launch.
> I would say the most sensible is "per passenger hour", followed by "per passenger mile"

Not trying to be contrarian or anything but I'm curious why. Another comment mentioned the material difference in available options between comparing an 8 hour flight to an 8 hour drive. In my mind, the only meaningful metric then would be the "per passenger mile". This should be emphasized by the fact that there are destinations that literally no amount of driven miles will get you to. The utility provided from 8 hours of flight versus 8 hours of driving are so drastically different I can't imagine how you'd compare them. 8 hours of flight will let you visit roughly a quarter of the world. 8 hours of driving won't even get you a quarter of the way across the US.
If the language is the most important thing for you, https://livecode.com/ has a very HyperTalk-like language and runs on modern hardware.
You can call it a "narrative", but then I get to shrink the "food desert" term into just a part of some narrative too, since I've seen personally how theft drives out grocers in MN here. One after another "underperforming".

The progressive D.A.'s and A.G.'s, who own this project of mass downward departure from normal sentencing, do not expect things to change overnight by taking pressure off (mainly) the poor and the young.

But in 5-10 years if crime is worse and society more stratified, their project can be called a failure.
I had zero idea that's what it was supposed to be. Cold brew reads to me as brew that is now cold.

Wouldn't it be a better term cold-brew or something like that?
If this is true, the 10 rounds of intense interviewing is some beautiful irony
Yes, though `ctypes' is kind of marked as `unsafe' in Python by convention.
Also, given the love, why is it that HyperCard died out and nothing similar took its place?
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Claims about LLMs increasing programmer "productivity" should start with a measurable definition of productivity. I have 40+ years experience programming and I have yet to find a useful metric of "programmer productivity," so I am going to assume that all references to "productivity" come from subjective feelings and opinions -- like saying "I feel healthier" after a colon cleanse.

Junior programmers will likely find LLM coding tools magical because they don't have the skills and experience to outperform the "AI." I liken that to my parents thinking I have a special genius with computers when I get their wi-fi to work again or show them how to search for an email message -- let's call it a skills issue.

More senior programmers may find LLMs handy for filling in boilerplate or dropping in a well-known implementation of an algorithm or code snippet. Previously we would have to break stride and search StackOverflow and other places, or a book, or figure it out ourselves, so maybe we gain some time getting a chunk of code regurgitated for us, and lose some of that time carefully reviewing and testing what we got. A significant part of programming involves rote tasks, and in the most common domains (like web development) the code solutions tend to look the same. If GPT or Copilot can save me a few seconds of looking up how to reduce an array in Javascript, great, but I'm not sure I'll call that a big productivity boost because I don't measure my productivity in lines of code per minute.

To put it less charitably, the closer your skills approach 0x productivity (relative to the 1x - 10x programmers) the more an "AI assistant" will increase your output. But since we don't have a good way to measure productivity or compare it to past performance, much less to other programmers, we just talk about subjective experience made worse by Dunning-Kruger effects.
@Jay - Thanks for jumping in. What was Dorsey's balance on BlueSky(AT) vs Nostr?
Good pedestrian and transit infrastructure is barrier-free. If you can't cross the street and board a train in a wheelchair, the lack of pedestrian infrastructure is exactly the problem.
I think (but cannot prove) that along the way, it was decided to explicitly measure ability to 'study to the test'. My theory goes that certain trendsetting companies decided that ability to 'grind at arbitrary technical thing' measures on-job adaptability. And then many other companies followed suit as a cargo cult thing.

If it were otherwise, and those trendsetting companies actually believed LeetCode tested programming ability, then why isn't LeetCode used in ongoing employee evaluation? Surely the skill of programming ability a) varies over an employee's tenure at a firm and b) is a strong predictor of employee impact over the near term. So I surmise that such companies don't believe this, and that therefore LeetCode serves some other purpose, in some semi-deliberate way.
I’ve managed to mostly avoid these kinds of interviews—is this for real?

Is this what lots of the folks mean when they claim tons of candidates “can’t even code?” Syntax or some names aren’t right for some particular language?

Shit, I forget the syntax for “for” loops or what the right way to get an array’s length is or what this language’s way of declaring a constructor looks like in languages I’ve written several hundred of lines of in the last few days, routinely, while under no real pressure at all. I crib off my own surrounding code for syntax hints constantly.

I’ve been doing this north of 20 years, and tend to end up as the guy to go to for tricky problems wherever I work, but I would fail 100% of whiteboard code-writing tests that gave any fucks about it being remotely correct in any particular language. I think the last time I could maybe have done it was when I knew only one language, and it was Perl, and I mostly wrote it in notepad—so, like, the first year or so after started writing code.
The point is that browsers will do a lot of work that JavaScript frameworks might need to do now, enabling framework developers to make their frameworks simpler, and their execution faster.
I agree that larger models have more memorization capacity, but that isn't what find exciting about LLMs, personally. You can ask GPT-4 some esoteric question and get back an answer that's more likely to be truthful than Llama 3's, but either way, it's the same result: you have to look it up for yourself.

What I think is much more interesting about LLMs is their ability to transform natural language inputs. Applications like open-book question answering, summarization, data extraction, and so forth. For these things, small models are at the point where they are commercially useful now. And if you do fine-tune them on your own domain, they will work better than larger general-purpose models.
> 8GB ram is hardware limited

The line is (emphasis mine)

> Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features

which... yeah, I think that's true? You can run smaller LLMs in 8GB, for example, but it's a tight fit and you're going to be limited to really really small models.

Granted, I suspect this will result in the floor for "acceptable RAM" to go up considerably, which... we'll see if that's good or bad.

> $499 is a budget phone???

Yeah no that's nonsense. You can get a moto g for $99 (!) on sale at https://www.motorola.com/us/specials right now and that's... I mean, that's an old model, but it's perfectly serviceable yet.
That was about the age when my daughter got heavily into the Warriors series.
the quality of the bean plus processing is the problem not caffiene in of itself. how intelligent are the beans
> Processing data at the edge also makes for the best possible user experience because of the complete independence of network connectivity and hence minimal latency.

That's one particular set of trade-offs, but not necessarily the best. Eg if your network connection and server processing speed is sufficiently faster than your local processing speed, the latency would be higher for doing it locally.

Local inference can also use more battery power. And you need a more beefy device, all else being equal.
Could you name five extremely liberal policies that Bruce Harrell has enacted since taking office?

Or even, like, talked about enacting?
IRC is back and I love it
The pain for me has been in the VM scene, as VirtualBox disappeared from the ecosystem with the switch to ARM.
I don't know about brick and mortar stores, but I've purchased a brand new moto e for <$150 within the last 5 years, and I'd call Motorola "brand name".
“The South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics was awarded a total of 6,165 United States patents in 2023, the most of any company. Qualcomm ranked second among companies, with 3,854 U.S. patents granted, followed by the likes of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and IBM.” — https://www.statista.com/statistics/274825/companies-with-th...